Your View: GOP tactics warrant criminal probe

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Oct 19, 2013 at 10:35 PM

As "We the People" suffer through the shame and lack of representation in Washington by the leaders we are foolish enough to continue sending there, we find that the Republican Party was preparing/hoping that our government would be shut down so they could extort their backwoods ideology from the Senate and the president of the United States?

DAVE WALKER

As "We the People" suffer through the shame and lack of representation in Washington by the leaders we are foolish enough to continue sending there, we find that the Republican Party was preparing/hoping that our government would be shut down so they could extort their backwoods ideology from the Senate and the president of the United States?

Having their Cruz/Lee approach being negated by the people and even their own party members, once again they resort to cheating as they are fully aware they cannot win an election fair and square. I harken back to the House of Representatives (I use that term loosely) that for some ungodly reason, passed a new law that transferred the decision of flooring a bill to the second in command, Eric Cantor or his designated appointee, thus lifting the onus off House Speaker John Boehner, who wasn't man enough to bring a clean Continuing Resolution to the floor he knew would pass, leaving Rep. Cantor to fend for himself.

This shameful bill was exposed by Rep. Chris van Holland in a House hearing, continually questioning Chairman Jason Chaffetz at the podium as to the underhanded approach from the House to try to deflect blame for their shutting down of the government (which was their intention all along). Watching Chaffetz squirm as he acknowledged the truth of the midnight bill they didn't want exposed should have triggered criminal charges against any and all parties who were in on this national disgrace. The Speaker of the House has done absolutely nothing to justify his position, other than to be involved in the midnight vote.

The government shutdown could have and should have been resolved days earlier. We are beginning to become the laughingstock of the free world as we are being governed by yet another set of conservative, clueless, careless clowns. As we watch the tea party and their brethren mock and insult President Obama because he is finally standing up to their utter foolishness, we also see the Republican Party crumbling before our very eyes, which they so richly deserve.

The good thing is that 2014 is near, which should wipe out the Republican Party and hopefully, the asinine tea party. The even better news is that 2016 is close enough so that the GOP doesn't stand a chance in either election, brought on by their own members and their members' inability to control themselves and their far-right-wing members.